4 maps showing Hurricane Jose's path in the Atlantic
The official forecast track from the hurricane center puts Jose as a strong tropical storm Wednesday 225 miles southeast of NY . That increased risk of rip currents will spread northward along the Mid-Atlantic coast of the US during the next few days.

Power still out at 50 Florida nursing homes
Police officers are conducting welfare checks at 42 other nursing home and assisted living facilities across Hollywood . Both expired by Wednesday, although one generator did make an encore appearance as the last residents were removed.

Latest estimates for global causes of death and disease
An Australian man born in 2016 can expect to live 80.5 years, an increase in life expectancy of 1.6 years over the past decade. ONE IN FIVE deaths worldwide is linked to poor diet - while seven million people died of tobacco-related illnesses in 2016.

Trump, Democrats Agree to Work on DACA Deal
As a candidate, Trump vowed to repeal the executive action signed by President Barack Obama allowing the young people to stay. On Thursday morning, the president - a former Democrat himself - and the minority leaders appeared largely aligned.

Major fire breaks out at RK Studio in Mumbai
RK Studio houses RK Films, a film production company established by, and named after, legendary filmmaker Raj Kapoor . Chief fire officer P Rahangdale said that the fire began at the decorative equipment in the studio.

Power outages continue to drop in Georgia after Irma storm
As of Tuesday afternoon, FPL's website showed 183,100 of its 210,700 Collier County customers were still without power. The company on Tuesday said it expected to have the lights back on by the end of the weekend for the Atlantic coast.

Andy Rubin'sEssential smartphone lineup was launched, saying that it will neither be exclusive to any carriers nor do carry even a brand logo.The Essential PH-1 has been started shipping off a few weeks ago to the customers those who have pre-ordered a couple of months ago. Word of the new audio accessory came directly from Andy Rubin when he was in a Reddit AMA recently.

However, unlike like most of the other devices that have ditched the headphone jack, the Essential's modularity is set to add the port back to the smartphone.

When asked about a new 3.5mm headphone port accessory, the company revealed plans for new Click Connector accessories. "We are continuing to look at supporting ideas, like cameras", reads the Reddit post.

Headphone jacks are pretty big components and they don't play nice with all-screen Phone architectures. The company said during the Reddit AMA that the Essential Phone charging dock will be "out shortly".

"We studied it very seriously, but fitting a headphone jack into our Phone required tradeoffs we were uncomfortable with", a company official explained. "Then we made sure we to build ya'll a high-quality DAC in a tiny adapter that can elegantly live on your headphones", reads the post.

Now there is no release date for this particular Click Accessory from Essential. For those that own the Essential PH-1, also referred to simply as the Essential Phone, the update to Oreo may be of particular interest as many thought the phone would end up launching with Oreo out of the box, but that ended up not being the case when the phone was announced earlier this year.

The Essential Phone arrived late last month running Android Nougat.

The pending arrival of an attachment that comes with a headphone jack and a promise of an Android Oreo upgrade by November may make more customers think of buying the Essential Phone.